CVE-2022-48063 is an excessive memory consumption vulnerability affecting GNU Binutils before version 2.40. An attacker can trigger this by providing a specially crafted ELF file, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) for exploitation, resulting in high availability impact (A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVE-2022-48063
Dec 10, 2024GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c.
Aug 8, 2023binutils: excessive memory consumption in load_separate_debug_files() in dwarf.c
Dec 21, 2022